Type 1–4 fire risk assessments for the common parts of purpose-built and converted blocks, written to BS 9792:2025 and the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022. Kevin or Jon on-site, never a junior, never a subcontractor.
Since Grenfell, the law for blocks of flats has changed more than for any other building type. The Fire Safety Act 2021 confirmed that the responsible person's duties extend to the structure, external walls and flat entrance doors. The Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 added hard duties on door checks, signage and information sharing. The Building Safety Act 2022 created a whole new regime for higher-risk buildings.
A generic common-parts assessment, cloned from the last block and completed in an hour, does not engage with any of this, the evacuation strategy, the external wall system, the compartmentation between flats, or the flat entrance doors that are now explicitly in scope.
Clear Fire assessments are carried out on-site by Kevin or Jon and written to the housing methodology your managing agent, insurer and (where relevant) the Building Safety Regulator will expect to see.
Drawn from Kevin and Jon's combined assessment experience. Common-parts assessments in blocks turn up the same recurring issues, and the costly ones are almost always compartmentation and doors.
Unsealed service penetrations in risers and ceilings, holes left by cabling and pipework. The single most common, and most serious, finding, because it defeats the "stay put" strategy the building relies on.
Missing or failed self-closers, gaps out of tolerance, non-FD30S doors, resident-fitted replacements. Now explicitly the responsible person's concern under the Fire Safety Act 2021.
Combustible cladding, render or insulation, and combustible items stored on balconies. Where the wall system is in doubt a PAS 9980 appraisal (EWS) is the recognised route.
A "stay put" strategy that compartmentation defects or works on site have quietly undermined, with no interim simultaneous-evacuation plan in place.
Mobility scooters, bicycles, prams and stored furniture in the protected stair, lobby or escape corridor. A recurring management failing under Article 23.
Wedged or non-latching communal fire doors, and smoke control / automatic opening vents that have not been tested or are wired out.
For blocks over 11m: no evidence of the quarterly communal-door and annual flat-entrance-door checks the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 now require.
No secure information box, missing firefighter wayfinding signage, or external-wall and floor-plan information not shared with the fire and rescue service.
Your assessment arrives as a signed PDF with a one-page management summary at the front, photographic evidence stitched to every finding, and a separately downloadable evidence appendix.
Findings are prioritised against the PAS 79-1 likelihood-and-consequence matrix into four bands, each with an indicative remediation window.
Kevin was superb in responding quickly when asked to step in and replace an inadequate fire risk assessment delivered by another firm.
For clients with several buildings, we run every site to one report format, one assessor relationship and one annual review cycle, so your responsible person and insurer see a consistent evidence trail across the whole portfolio.
Tell us about the block and we'll confirm scope and availability within one working hour. Kevin or Jon on-site, signed report within 24 hours of invoice paid.
Kevin and Jon are happy to give you a straight answer before you book, no sales pitch, just plain advice.
Speak to an owner →Tell us about your site. We'll respond within one working hour during business hours.